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An ensemble of electrons trapped above superfluid helium offers a paradigm system for investigating and controlling collective charge dynamics in low-dimensional electronic matter. Of particular interest is the ability to spatially control…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 C. A. Mikolas , N. R. Beysengulov , A. J. Schleusner , D. G. Rees , C. Undershute , J. Pollanen

A new theoretical method is introduced to study coherent electron transport in an interacting multilevel quantum dot. The method yields the correct behavior both in the limit of weak and strong coupling to the leads, giving a unified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Levy Yeyati , F. Flores , A. Martin-Rodero

We examine the effects of electron-electron interactions on transport between edge states in a multilayer integer quantum Hall system. The edge states of such a system, coupled by interlayer tunneling, form a two-dimensional, chiral metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Tomlinson , J. -S. Caux , J. T. Chalker

We show that the low temperature electron transport properties of chemically functionalized graphene can be explained as sequential tunneling of charges through a two dimensional array of graphene quantum dots (GQD). Below 15 K, a total…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Daeha Joung , Lei Zhai , Saiful I. Khondaker

We investigate quantum transport in micrometer-sized single crystals of Bi$_4$Br$_4$, a material predicted to be a second-order topological insulator. 1D topological states with long phase coherence times are revealed via the modulation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 J. Lefeuvre , M. Kobayashi , G. Patriarche , N. Findling , D. Troadec , M. Ferrier , S. Guéron , H. Bouchiat , T. Sasagawa , R. Deblock

In this paper we study transport properties of electrons on the two-dimensional honeycomb lattice. We consider a half-filled system in the vicinity of a symmetry-breaking transition from a semimetallic phase towards an insulating phase with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 Lars Fritz

We report measurements of the real and imaginary parts of the AC conductivity in the quantum limit, \hbar \omega > k_B T of insulating nominally uncompensated n-type silicon. The observed frequency dependence shows evidence for a crossover…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 N. P. Armitage , E. Helgren , G. Gruner

The 2D lattice gas model with competing short and long range interactions is appliedused for calculation of the incoherent charge transport in the classical strongly-correlated charge segregated polaronic state. We show, by means of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Miranda , T. Mertelj , V. Kabanov , D. Mihailovic

Collective charge-density modes (plasmons) of the clean two-dimensional unpolarized electron gas are stable, for momentum conservation prevents them from decaying into single-particle excitations. Collective spin-density modes (spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 Amit Agarwal , Marco Polini , Giovanni Vignale , Michael E. Flatte

We demonstrate that with a stepwise introduction of complexity to a model of an electron system embedded in a photonic cavity and a carefully controlled stepwise truncation of the ensuing many-body space it is possible to describe the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 Vidar Gudmundsson , Olafur Jonasson , Thorsten Arnold , Chi-Shung Tang , Hsi-Sheng Goan , Andrei Manolescu

A natural explanation for the carrier concentration-dependent electronic behavior in the layered cobaltates emerges within correlated-electron Hamiltonians with finite on-site and significant nearest neighbor hole-hole Coulomb repulsions.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 H. Li , R. T. Clay , S. Mazumdar

We investigate the effect of coupling Anderson localized particles in one dimension to a system of marginally localized phonons having a symmetry protected delocalized mode at zero frequency. This situation is naturally realized for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-03-21 Sumilan Banerjee , Ehud Altman

Motivated by recent developments on the fabrication and control of semiconductor-based quantum dot qubits, we theoretically study a finite system of tunnel-coupled quantum dots with the electrons interacting through the long-range Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 DinhDuy Vu , Sankar Das Sarma

Active fluids composed of constituents that are constantly driven away from thermal equilibrium can support spontaneous currents and can be engineered to have unconventional transport properties. Here we report the emergence of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-15 Frank Siebers , Robin Bebon , Ashreya Jayaram , Thomas Speck

The electrical conductance of molecular junctions may strongly depend on the temperature, and weakly on molecular length, under two distinct mechanisms: phase-coherent resonant conduction, with charges proceeding via delocalized molecular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 Hyehwang Kim , Dvira Segal

We discuss a quantum thermal machine that generates power from a thermally driven double quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting reservoirs. Energy exchange between the dots is mediated by electron-electron interactions. We can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 S. Mojtaba Tabatabaei , David Sanchez , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Rafael Sanchez

Hot electron transport in a quantum Hall edge channel of an AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure is studied by investigating the energy distribution function in the channel. Ballistic hot-electron transport, its optical-phonon replicas, weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Tomoaki Ota , Shunya Akiyama , Masayuki Hashisaka , Koji Muraki , Toshimasa Fujisawa

Heat dissipation in current-carrying cryogenic nanostructures is problematic because the phonon density of states decreases strongly as energy decreases. We show that the Coulomb interaction can prove a valuable resource for carrier cooling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 John King Gamble , Mark Friesen , Robert Joynt , S. N. Coppersmith

The transport properties of junctions composed of a central region tunnel-coupled to external electrodes are frequently studied within the single-impurity Anderson model with Hubbard on-site interaction. In the present work, we supplement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Ulrich Eckern , Karol I. Wysokiński

Electronic topological phases are renowned for their unique properties, where conducting surface states exist on the boundary of an insulating three-dimensional bulk. While the transport response of the surface states has been extensively…